Improved mode of cutting boots



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SETH S. DREW, OF DIXON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO A. D. AND' H. J. DREW,

OF SAME PLAGE. I

IMPROVED MODE OF CUTTING BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,308, datcd October 13, 1863.

To all whom .it may concern:

Be it known that I, SETH S. DREW, of Dixon, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois,have invented a new and Improved Mode of Cutting Boots; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in whieh- Figure 1 is a diagram showing a piece ot' leather cut according to my invention to form a boot; Fig. 2, a view of the same in a folded state ready to be stitched; Figs. 3 and 4t, side views ot' a boot, the leather of which is cut according to my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object ot this invention is to cut the leather for boots in such a manner that the labor of crimping will be avoided, and a saving of stock or leather effected, and the boot made to titsnngly and smoothly to the foot.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

In Fig. 1, A represents a piece of leather cut according to my invention to form a boot, a representing the leg portion; b, the heel, and c the foot portion. The leg portion a is cut so as to admit of being doubled or folded, and stitched to form a seam, af, at the front ot' the bootleg', as shown in Fig. 3, the dotted red line ax designating the center ofthe fold, and the lower part of the outer edge of a is rounded, as shown at a, and is cut out below a, so as to form a vertical or nearly vertical end a.

The foot portion c is Ialso cut of such a form as to admit ot' being doubled or folded, the dotted red line bx designating the center ofthe fold. The part of c above the line b has its inner end hollowed out, as shown at c', to correspond to the rounded part a of the part a, and the inner end above c is cut straight and obliquely withA c, as shown at c", to correspond with the straight portion a!" ot' a.

The piece of leather thus cut and folded forms the boot, the seam a being, as before and without the labor of crimping, and a considerable saving is effected in stock as well as in labor in making the boot.

I am aware that Letters Patent were granted on the 13th day of December, 1859, to Peter Kett'er for a boot-pattern analogousin its general principles to that above described.

My invention is superior to that of the said Keft'er, in that the seam of the, leg. instead ot' extending obliquely up one side, is transferred to the front ot' the boot, where, if perceptible at all, it constitutes no desight or blemish. This I accomplish by cutting the leg portion with straight vertical sides equidistant from the back. line ax, so that the said vertical edges when brought together and connected will form a seam directly up the front of the leg, as before explained. It will further be evident that by cutting the pattern with a straight back, as shown in Fig. 1, the scrap or waste is formed almost entirely in one piece, and by judicious arrangement of the patterns the loss of this can be avoided by employing it to constitute the toe-piece of another pattern.

What I claim, therefore, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rIhe boot pattern herein described, when the leg-piece is cut with vertical edges to form a vertical seam directly up the front of the boot-leg, as specified.

SETH S. DRE W Witnesses:

EUGENE PINKNEY, J osEPn BALL. 

